componentjs/component

This project is deprecated and no longer maintained. The README makes this clear upfront and points visitors to other tools for modern web development. If you are looking for something actively supported, the README itself suggests webpack, jspm, or browserify as alternatives. When it was active, Component was a frontend build and package management tool for JavaScript web applications. The idea was to bring together everything a frontend project needs in one place: managing dependencies, processing HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, and fonts, and producing a finished build ready for the browser. Rather than wiring together several separate tools, Component was meant to handle the whole pipeline under a single command. It used its own package format, described in a component.json file, separate from the npm package.json standard. Packages were hosted on a registry at component.github.io. You installed Component globally via npm and then ran component build in your project to produce output. The project went through two major generations of authorship and a significant 1.0 release that reorganized how it worked. Eventually the original authors moved on to other projects, including Duo.js and normalize.io, and active development stopped. The stated plan was to revisit the project only if browsers ever natively adopted ES6 modules and Web Components, which has since happened through other ecosystem paths. Many of the individual components published under the Component organization on GitHub still exist and remain usable because most also include a package.json file, making them compatible with standard npm tooling. The component.json files in those packages are kept only for backwards compatibility.